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1. Making your New Year’s
resolutions stick
By Kevin Abdulrahman
New Year’s is a time when many resolutions hours a day, seven days a week, the power of
are made. They are also the time when many which you will only realize when you practice
resolutions are left unachieved. The resolutions what you are listening too.
you choose to make are goals. Now when you have your goals written
You must write your specific goals on paper down and you’ve placed them where they will
if you want to win the game of life. be seen often throughout your day, you will be
People usually talk about their so-called constantly reminded of what your priority in
goals but, unfortunately, are not committed life is. You get to ask yourself the question and,
to attaining them. Because when those goals right then and there, you can make the decision
are not written, they just casually drift by. to keep on track. Constantly looking at your
Successful people write their specific dreams written goals is a path-correcting mechanism.
and goals into reality. Everyone I know who is Ants do it all the time; they use the sun as their
successful has come to learn and understand navigation tool so as to get where they want to
the power of writing goals. go. They move in figure eights and constantly
I never used to write my goals. I used to use the sun and its angle as a guide to their
think, “Hey, I don’t need to write my goals destination. So, for lack of a better metaphor,
down. I’m bright enough to keep them in my be an ant.
head. I’ll remember it,” I used to boast. Sure, I You must also attach an emotional element
did remember my goals, but the question I have to your goals. If your goals lack an emotional
learned to ask is, “How often during the day am connection, then your desire will not last
I thinking about my goals?” the test of time. For example, if you start a
What I found was that a month would go by, business with the intention of earning one
and I would get so preoccupied with the bills, thousand dollars a week, unless you have an
the cat, the internet connection, my friend’s emotional connection, the chances are you will
girlfriend problems, the gym, my car—whatever you can think of, it crumble. Yet if you had a target of hitting one thousand dollars a week
was on my mind—then at the end of the month when I would get some because it would mean you can help your family with day-to-day living
breathing time, I’d look back and go, “Wow, that was one heck of a and remove their stress (if seeing them in stress really hurts you), then
wasted month.” you will have a strong desire that will withstand the test of time. Your
We all have things happening all the time, and since we can only attend desire will only get stronger.
to one thing at a time in our heads, the goal is straight out the door. This It’s the burning desire that will get you out of bed. It is this burning
can drag on for weeks, months, and even years. Only after a while do we desire that will occupy every spare moment you have. It will be the last
realize that we have deviated completely from our goals. Most people are thing you think of before going to sleep, and it will be the first thing
left wondering how last year went by so quickly. Successful people know you think of when you wake. If you have a goal, and you don’t think
that every day spent focusing on the end reward moves them one step about it with excitement, then your desire is not strong enough. The key
closer to attaining their goals and living their dream lives. is to have a strong reason for needing to achieve this goal and to ask
Take a second now, grab a piece of paper, and write down ten goals, yourself exactly what the consequences of not achieving it are. Have a
big or small, that you would like to achieve in the next twelve months clear image in your mind of what it feels like to have achieved the goal.
(this will give you a head start to January the 1st). Picture it; smell it; taste it. Now that you have your goal in the forefront
Do this exercise now. Write your ten goals down—write ’em, write of your mind, ask yourself, “What do I need to do to get there?”
’em, write ’em. Having your dreams and goals in front of you all the time will
You should make this list, not because Kevin is saying so but transform what is a fiction today into a reality tomorrow.
because, when you write down your goals, you have made a
commitment, albeit to yourself. You have written something down and Have a Winning Month.
your subconscious is now telling you to go and make it happen. When Kevin Abdulrahman is The Man Inspiring Millions. He is the
you read your goals (to yourself; no one else has to hear them), you are International Author of a series of books, a Keynote Speaker, Mind
taking your thoughts from your conscious mind to your subconscious Nutrition Expert, World Class Mind Coach to the Elite, an In-Demand
mind. Put simply without getting clinical, the conscious mind controls Trainer.
such activities as kicking a ball. Your subconscious mind controls your Kevin’s articles are regularly published in magazines, reports,
breathing and your heartbeat. newsletters and newspapers, constantly being used as resources all
Training your subconscious mind will help you to attain your dreams. over the world. Kevin helps winning organizations, universities, sports
Your subconscious mind never sleeps, so when you write your goals teams and individuals create breakthrough results.
down and read them, you are putting your mind into training mode. Just You can get Kevin Abdulrahman’s books and request for him to
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Kevin Abdulrahman, a British Yemeni, is an International Author of THE BOOK on Winning The Game Of Life.
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